Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed ...
... person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed ...
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... person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing ...
... person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing ...
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... person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too ...
... person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too ...
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... persons who , in this country , never omit an opportunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting the ... person who has acquired more knowledge of the history of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment ...
... persons who , in this country , never omit an opportunity of reviving every wretched Jacobite slander respecting the ... person who has acquired more knowledge of the history of those times than is to be found in Goldsmith's Abridgment ...
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... person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and to the confessions of the King him- self ...
... person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and to the confessions of the King him- self ...
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